Publishing & Metadata Infrastructure
Black Box Check Publishing & Metadata Infrastructure Workshop is a premium educational workshop designed to help independent artists, producers, songwriters, and music entrepreneurs properly establish their publishing infrastructure to prevent royalty loss into industry “black boxes” — pools of unmatched royalties caused by incomplete or incorrect registration data.
Mission
To eliminate royalty leakage for independent creators by teaching artists how to properly structure their publishing administration and recover black box royalties owed to them.
The workshop teaches artists how to:
Register copyrights with the U.S. Copyright Office
Join and register works with PROs like ASCAP and BMI
Register mechanical rights through The Mechanical Licensing Collective
Register neighboring rights via SoundExchange
Audit metadata for errors
Recover unmatched and unclaimed royalties
The flagship feature is Black Box Royalties Data Cleanup Night, where artists bring organized spreadsheets and actively search for missing money using live database tools.
Guest Speakers Speak
Welcome to Black Box Check
This workshop was created because too many independent artists are releasing music without understanding how the backend of the music business works.
Most artists focus on streams, followers, and promotion…
but very few artists understand publishing infrastructure, metadata, and royalty registration.
The truth is, if your music is not registered correctly, royalties can go unmatched, delayed, or paid incorrectly.
Over the next four weeks, we are going to help you build the foundation necessary to properly collect the royalties connected to your music.
This is not theory.
This is hands-on infrastructure setup designed to help you protect your catalog long term.”
4-Week Curriculum Plan
Workshop Training
Most independent artists release music without properly setting up their publishing infrastructure. That means royalties from streaming, YouTube, radio, live performances, and mechanical licensing can go unmatched, unclaimed, or misdirected.
Black Box Check teaches artists how to properly register their catalog, clean up metadata, and position themselves to collect every royalty they’re owed.
In this 4-week workshop you will learn:
How to register your songs correctly
How to set up publishing infrastructure
How to claim mechanical royalties
How to fix metadata issues
How to identify missing royalties
How to prevent royalty leakage
Includes:
Publishing setup guidance
Metadata cleanup
Black Box Royalties Cleanup Night
Live registration walkthroughs
Royalty recovery strategy
Publishing Infrastructure + Royalty Recovery
Learn how to
Register your music properly
Fix metadata issues
Set up publishing correctly
Claim mechanical royalties
Prevent royalty loss
Intake Form
Artist Registration
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